Lady Gaga in the News: 99 Cent Copies of Born This Way, Invaluable Performances on S.N.L.

Early this morning Lady Gaga released her second album, Born This Way. If you haven’t yet purchased it, considering doing so through Amazon, which is selling the entire thing for 99 cents. And what’s driving such generosity? According to Time’s Techland blog, “Apple is reportedly close to finalizing their deal with the major labels for their own cloud music service, so Amazon would undoubtedly like to get as many users on board with Amazon Cloud Player—which runs on Android, but not officially on Apple’s iOS—as quickly as possible.” The Amazon version is also compatible with iTunes and iPods, for those not yet on music cloud nine. Meanwhile, over on iTunes, Apple is treating users who purchase Born This Way before May 29 to a complimentary remix of the song “Judas.” That sounds fine, too.

While the album is receiving lukewarm reviews—“boring,” “certainly not the greatest album,” and a “disarmingly great,” from Rolling Stone—Lady Gaga’s performance on this week’s season finale of Saturday Night Live was inarguable revelatory. She stole the show in “What’s That Name?”

And nailed her part, so to speak, in an homage to m&eactute;nages à trois.